Show PROP BLANCHARDS LECTURE S Talks to Teachers at High School on Voice Culture The educators of the city and there were many of them who did not hear Prof Blanchards talk at the high school yesterday morning missed a rare treat for his exoosltlon of the art of voice culture was not only a pleasIng pleas-Ing lecture but his Ideas were of Inestimable Ines-timable value to teachers Prof Blanchard who Is teacher of voice culture In the University of Chicago Chi-cago dealt with the voice as a vocal Instrument and with the man behind the voice Ho said the voice was a reporter re-porter Indicating the physical Intellectual Intel-lectual and emotional characteristics oC its owner In order to have a good voice said the speaker a man must have a good body and therefore physical physi-cal culture is most necessary to the training of the voice In this connection Prof Blanchard gave several examples of correct poise correct breathing exercises for the limbs etc In order to secure the full and proper control of the voice Prof Blanchard said that not only must the Intellectual side of man be cultivated but the heart or emotional side and the volitional voli-tional side In closing Prof Blanchard urged voice culture on two grounds First that it is one of the most healthful exercises ever Invented and second for the good of ones friends and said In relation to the latter point that a bad voice was one of the worst of all bad things |